Following on from my last post, I went back to my May Hauptbahnhof recording and created another experimental piece.
This time I tried combining the train station ambience with some acoustic guitar playing. I really haven't played much guitar at all since I've been in Berlin. I was encouraged to try doing something with open tunings by the boyfriend of one of my girlfriend's colleagues. He's a much better guitarist than me, that's for sure. On a night out (and over some beers) we got into a music theory chat (really him explaining some theory to me). It actually helped my understanding of the instrument (a little bit).
So anyway it reinvigorated my interest in the instrument. I actually have no idea what tuning I had my guitar in for this recording. As you might hear if you listen to the Soundcloud recording (Berlin HBF May#3) there was some music playing at the station. I was in part trying to get a sequence of notes that would work on top of that. So the tuning was all just by ear.
Let's see. I can figure out right now what the tuning is. I broke my high E string the other week (and haven't replaced the strings yet), hence there only being 5 notes:
- G (down tuned from E - Godflesh eat your heart out!)
- G (1 step down)
- A# (2 steps down - I think. I'm not very good at this)
- D (2 ½ steps down?)
- A (1 step down)
Well, that does look like quite a strange tuning to me. It gave me some nice sounds though. Also I just realised that I was extremely sharp. So if anyone ever wants to play along, it'll be a right pain in the bottom.